In a few seconds, they found the reason for the deathly silence of an otherwise active and busy household. There were corpses lying everywhere. It was a truly horrifying sight. Some had been flayed open while others had a few limbs missing. One officer threw up as the sharp scent of blood overpowered them. The farther they went in, the more corpses they found. The sight and smell was too gory and wretched to…
Confucius once said “Study the past if you would define the future”. In this quote he implies that in order to understand what the future possibly holds, one has to study the past. This also holds true when examining the present as well. If one does not fully understand the significance of certain past events, it can be difficult to understand what is going on now in the present. The Faming of the Bones is a book by Edwidge Danticat based on the real life Parsley Massacre that occurred in the Dominican Republic in 1937. Danticat tells the story of a young Haitian domestic worker named Amabelle who works in the Dominican Republic during dictator Rafael Trujillo’s presidency. The book tells of Amabelle’s hardships and struggle to survive during…
The Body In The Woods by April Henry is about Alexis, Ruby, and Nick, who are the newest uncertified members of Portland’s Search and Rescue, trained volunteers that searches for people who are lost or injured. These three teenagers receive their first call-out from the Portland County Sheriff’s Office to search for Bobby Balog, the missing autistic man in Forest Park. One of the supervisors, Jon Partridge, assigns the trio to search in a particular trail, where Bobby is least likely to be found. There, they encounter a man jogging with his dogs, a man in his early thirties carrying a big duffel bag, a homeless guy with black dreads, and a white-haired man who claims that the birder’s notebook Alexis found is his. Instead of finding…
The Bonesetter’s Daughter is a novel about three generations of Chinese women. The novel starts off with a short prologue told in the perspective of LuLing Liu Young. LuLing is the daughter of “Precious Auntie”, a horribly disfigured nursemaid who is later revealed to be her mother, and the mother of Ruth, a “ghost-writer” who authors self-help books. Ruth lives with her boyfriend Art and his two teenage daughters, Dory and Fia in an apartment in San Francisco. She mysteriously loses her voice for several days per year around August 12. Ruth is nearly driven to the brink of exhaustion from trying to cope with everything life is throwing at her- her job, her boyfriend, her mother, as well as her past. The novel is divided into 3 parts; Part…
1.Ender is called the “Third” because he is the third child in his family. Ender does not care if he is a Third because when his classmates called him a Third he smiled.…
When Liesel finds out the Frau Hermann (The Mayor ) has a library to where she can come over whenever the laundry needs to be done. But when Mrs. Hermann can’t afford the laundry anymore, Liesel gets furious and asks Rudy (Her best friend) to help her steal the books from her library. Later on Max, a boy who Papa promised his mother that he’ll look over him while they are gone. Mama and Papa let max stay with them, and he lives in the basement. The Nazi’s go to the Hubermann’s house for use of protection for the bombing and strike others. But they didn’t find Max, and Max gets really sick and slips into a coma for a few days, and Mama & Papa are worried what to do with his body once he dies. The conflict starts out when Liesel takes The GraveDigger's Handbook. After her mother and her bury her brother for some reason has passed away on the train. After her mother leaving her she goes and lives with her foster parents. Everything was going great till Papa finds the book in her mattress and tells her not to lie and tell the truth about the book.…
On July 5, 1884, four sailors were cast away from their ship in a storm 1,600 miles from the Cape of Good Hope. Their lifeboat contained neither water nor much food. On the 20th day of their ordeal, Dudley and Stevens, without the assistance or agreement of Brooks, cut the throat of the fourth sailor, a 17- or 18-year-old boy. They had not eaten since day 12. Water had been available only occasionally. At the time of the death, the men were probably about 1,000 miles from land. Prior to his death, the boy was lying helplessly in the bottom of the boat. The three surviving sailors ate the boy’s remains for four days, at which point they were rescued by a passing boat. They were in a seriously weakened condition.…
loating around with King and Straub, we came across the corpse of one of the Fisherman's victims: Irma Freneau, a young girl. There was a dog trying to get her severed foot out of her sneaker so it could eat it. Irma's leg was cut off at the hip and was nowhere to be found. She appeared to have been strangled to death and then dismembered. The killer discarded her foot as the leg was the only thing he needed. I'm still not sure why he needed her leg, or who he is for that matter, but the description of the place she was found in gave me goosebumps, The police are still trying to find out who the Fisherman is and trying to catch him while parents of small children grow more and more…
The story " The Locket" was predictable because first i thought Octavie's lover Edmond was dead. In the story it made me mad knowing that Octavie was wearing a black dress for her death of Edmond, she took it seriously. Edmond's father told Octavie that ' on such a beautiful spring day one can believe in miracles' and her lover’s father and he asks her to remove her mourning . At first Octavie didn't know what Judge Piller means by that, She had been thinking what Judge Piller said to her. At the end of the story she realize that Edmond was alive, the person who was dead was another soldier who had stolen the locket from him. Judge Piller the ending of the story away because he knew that his son wasn't dead. In the story i felt bad for Octavie because…
On March 4, 1933, President Roosevelt said to the the American people, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” This quote means that if you are overcome by fear, it will make the situation you’re in harder. When I read this, I say that I agree with our former president. When looking at the stories and article, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” “Three Skeleton Key,” and “Stepping it Up,” they show us that fear is our worst enemy when you are overcome by it.…
My eyes move from page to page scrutinizing each word like Susie Salmon watching her family live life. I have finished The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold. As the time keeps moving forward, the search of Susie Salmon’s murder continues. The police have found evidence that Mr. Harvey is the murder and now trying to find him. As the police continue that search, Susie is walker watching her family move on from her death until; she has reached her moment to go to her heaven. Many events in the story made me connect and evaluate. The Sister Hood of The Traveling By Ann Brashares is about a group of friends that all fit into a magic pair of jeans and they all agree to share the pants over the summer as they all go on their summer vacation trips. The…
A rock that had been hollowed out by erosion, just perfect for two hikers. The first hiker finally took a look at the broken leg. Things weren’t looking too good. A huge gash with black and blue all around. He reaches into his pack to find all of the things he packed soaked. There was no good way of cleaning up this wound and keeping pressure on it. The man was already sweating with a fever which was a sure sign of infection. This was bad news.…
Murambi, The Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop is a historical fiction that powerfully calls upon readers to fight their ignorance of the Rwandan genocide. Diop generates empathy using fictional characters’ experiences in the Rwandan genocide to show the nature of tragedy while also providing an accurate history of the genocide. The novel calls upon readers to resist their urge to be complacent and to bring light to a tragedy that is too often ignored or skewed, especially by Western nations. The chilling novel memorializes the Rwandan genocide through graphic portrayals of the types of horrors that the world allowed to occur and through personal narratives of victims, killers, and others affected by the genocide in Rwanda.…
Analyzing “How to Read Literature like a Professor” is easy, but on the other hand, to analyze “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” is a consuming task. The difficulty doesn’t lie in the grammar, or the structure, but by not being sucked into the story, and instead employing the skills learned in Foster’s book. Amy Tan’s novel: The Bonesetter’s Daughter, seems to be a novel written for entertainment purposes, there seems to be no author’s intent; or use of literary devices that would contextualize a deeper meaning that is found in fiction, mythology, and folklore. Simple as that, although it may not seem like it, through the employment of the “guidelines” highlighted by Foster, the Bonesetter’s Daughter employs the literary devices that are masked by the reader’s awareness and by reaching beyond just the contextualization, it breaks the barriers of literature.…
We started hiking through a big pasture in all of our wet, cold kayaking gear. After an hour of walking through the pasture, we ended up walking into the jungle which gets thicker the deeper you go into it. It was a very steep hike and we had to cross over two cliffs where we would have died if we had slipped and fallen. I was at the back of the pack of people trudging through the jungle, so it was very muddy and slippery. All of us were slipping and grabbing anything to stay up, and you would usually be grabbing a thorn vine and tearing up your hand. After two hours of trudging through the jungle, we still could not find the campsite, so we circled back around and found a old abandoned farming cabin to sleep in that night. Everyone on the trip thought we would die in that jungle because it was so dangerous. The next morning we went back down to the kayaks and paddled down the rest of the muddy river to the campsite. The Red Cross came the next day and also we made an appearance on multiple Costa Rican…